Insist on only genuine, high-grade SunPower® back-contact solar cells

SunPower® back-contact solar cells are currently the highest efficiency cells available for use in everyday applications at 22%+ rated efficiency. But they can be expensive and difficult to purchase. Genuine high-grade SunPower® cells are only sold to prestigous manufacturers in a few select markets, and significant quantities, a minimum 10,000 cells at a time, must be purchased by the manufacturer to ensure a workable price for their customers.

It has recently come to light that some back-contact cells made by SunPower® have found their way on to secondary markets and into panels originating primarily in China. Rejected by SunPower®when they failed their rigoroustesting, these faulty cells cannot carry the prestigious SunPower® name due to their substandard quality. Unfortunatley, some promotional material we’ve seen brazenly disregards this fact.

Be wary of any solar panel with back-contact cells that does not explicitly make reference to the cells as being genuine, high-grade SunPower® cells.